Re: Two dead LK201 keyboards

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 5:39 AM Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: > Those old adapters are definitely just passive wiring, and were commonly > supplied with dual-standard mice. That's why they're green. I have green ones for mice, and purple ones for keyboards (same signals on USB side, different

Re: Mystery mid-70's keyboards

My initial thought is a clone dec terminal printer keyboard. Bill On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:41 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I was wondering if anyone knows what system either of these two keyboards > came from: > > 1) APL keyboard made by

Re: Mystery mid-70's keyboards

But that cant be right On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 12:38 PM Bill Degnan wrote: > My initial thought is a clone dec terminal printer keyboard. > Bill > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:41 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> >> Hey all, >> >> I was wondering if anyone knows

Re: Mystery mid-70's keyboards

2) Keyboard branded as Licon 55-500129, IC date codes in 1973 and '74. Has three blank white keys, one blank gray key, and one blank black key, also "home mem", "marg set" and "video rvs": http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/licon.jpg On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 12:38 PM Bill Degnan wrote:

Mystery mid-70's keyboards

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knows what system either of these two keyboards came from: 1) APL keyboard made by Maxi-switch, IC date codes in 1976, p/n 2129-009, keyboard encoder has "NKBD-452 03-004-05": http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/maxi.jpg 2) Keyboard branded as Licon

Lockheed MAC-16

Are there any surviving Lockheed MAC-16 machines anywhere? And/or does anyone have a good photo of the front? (All I've been able to find online is the angled shot that's on the wikipedia page, plus a few grainy images from marketing info). I rescued a couple of panels a little while ago,

Re: Two dead LK201 keyboards

> On Dec 28, 2019, at 5:25 AM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk > wrote: > > On 28/12/2019 01:46, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > >> I can get one and test it with an Apple keyboard, but that doesn't sound >> right. There aren't enough wires on a USB connector to allow you to speak >> the PS/2

ODS-1 structure examiner

Lee was looking for info on RSX ODS-1 earlier this year Looks like he's made progress groking it http://rsx11.blogspot.com/2019/12/opind-rsx11-ods-1-disk-structure-utility.html

Re: Two dead LK201 keyboards

On 28/12/2019 01:46, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I can get one and test it with an Apple keyboard, but that doesn't sound right. There aren't enough wires on a USB connector to allow you to speak the PS/2 protocol. And there are PS/2 to USB adapters (for old keyboards) that are the same

Re: Mystery mid-70's keyboards

On 12/28/19 12:06 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: "marg set" sounds like a word processor. Looks like a data entry keyboard... Yup, the ASCII control codes on the keys seemed out of place for a wordprocessor, but then there's that "marg set" key. I'd wondered about some kind of early

Re: DEC Rainbow / Pro video on VGA monitors?

> On Jan 19, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I'm trying to find a way to get my DEC Rainbow's monochrome output onto a >> newer monitor than my aging VR201 (especially since I zapped something